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January 24, 2008

Student, struck by car, treated for minor injuries

PROVIDENCE -- A 13-year-old student at Perry Middle School was struck by a car as she walked to school this morning. Sgt. Paul F. Zienowicz said the student, whose name was not immediately available, suffered minor injuries and was treated at Hasbro Children’s Hospital.

The accident occurred shortly after 8 a.m. at the intersection of Hartford and Laurel Hill avenues.

Zienowicz said a westbound motorist on Hartford stopped her car to allow the female student to cross the street, and when she did, the driver of a car on Laurel Hill mistook the stop as a gesture to allow him to drive out onto Hartford. When the driver turned left onto Hartford, he looked at the stopped car rather than where he was going, and his car struck the pedestrian, the sergeant said.

The driver of the car that struck the pedestrian -- his name was withheld pending completion of a report on the accident -- was issued a summons to appear at the Rhode Island Traffic Tribunal on a charge of failing to exercise due care.

-- Journal staff writer Gregory Smith

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